well these restaurants are up in the backwoods of marcy NY and the holland patent school district where my BIL lives. When my SIL died, those people brought tons of food to the house, both BIL and SIL had taught their kids in school. it was very homecookied, good quality stuff. i like olive garden just fine.
our first house was between two Italian families........now THAT was good food. we never went without real Italian for long....as soon as the good smells came out of their kitchen windows I was headed over to check it out. LOL